ftpput script: perl ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:28:17PM +0300, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> The tclsh program I wrote already speaks the 'dreadful ftp protocol',
> which btw, imho, is less dreadful than other abominations, such as smtp
> and pop3, and the point is of course to learn how it's done properly.

SMTP uses a single port, speaks plain simple language that I can do over
telnet.  Even pop3 I can do manually via telnet if I want to (sometimes
I do).

ftp has active and passive mode, binary and ascii, multiple ports, and
other mess.  What a hassle.  Bad protocol design.

Lennart Sorensen
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